Customer has requirement to establish a connection from MDF to new office on same property but about 100 yards away. What to do? Multi-mode fiber cost prohibitive.
Decided to try Ubiquiti Networks outdoor APs. Was very impressed. Implemented two of the inexpensive ($150 per unit) UniFi AP Outdoor+
Setup at first was a little tricky… before physically mounting on roof-top with line-of-sight between two points, need to first stage configuration by plugging both units into an Ethernet switch with Internet access. Download Ubiquiti’s ‘Unfi’ software which detects devices (the devices will acquire a DHCP address if a server exists but the Unifi software seems to detect them over a multicast address). Once both devices have been provisioned as independent APs, put a label on the far side AP, and unplug it from the Ethernet LAN. The Unifi software detects the disconnect and then you can configure the disconnected AP in a P2P topology (what Ubiquiti calls an (‘uplink’). After uplinking, the AP will operate in both modes concurrently… as an AP for nearby WiFi clients as well as a P2P endpoint with the other Unifi Outdoor+.
Here’s a very helpful video for uplink configuration… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16r9CoTdRqo
Also, knowing what LED status means comes in very handy as these guys can think slowly leading to confusion…
